Improved Hough Transform Applying in Mobile Robot Vision Navigation

This paper mainly discusses that in mobile robot vision navigation system, by using the improved Hough transform, we can improve the accuracy of line extraction and therefore avoid the image quality reduction caused by noise points. Considering the limitations of the standard Hough transform, we come up with a method with which we will accumulates the H (ρ, θ) through distributing the increment value, set a global threshold to shun the pointless measurements, eliminate the false lines by comparing θ difference between tow arbitrary lines, find the peaks by using rectangle window, and set a local threshold to eliminate false peaks. In this way, we can gain a method superior to the standard Hough transform which works better in extracting lines in application. The experiments show that this method can not only extract line features of geometric figure effectively in brief background, but also eliminate the iterative lines efficiently.